Just one quick stroll down a laundry detergent aisle can give me a migraine. I usually know exactly what I need and quickly grab it and go. (Always clear items and as eco-friendly as possible.) This is important to me for both my health and my family. To provide a healthier household...
More than 62,000 children under the age of six were exposed to laundry and dishwasher detergents, between 2013 and 2014. The next year, Consumer Reports said it would no longer recommend detergent packets, citing "the unique risks" while urging the "adoption of tougher safety measures." Buerk...
A new study finds that many household cosmetics, cleaners and other chemical products may release high levels of toxic compounds into consumers' homes.
Laundry detergents contain carcinogens that have easy access to your pores and bloodstream when they linger on your clothes after the wash. Scented laundry products emit hazardous chemicals through dryer vents, especially with scented varieties, which expose your lungs to toxic VOCs4. Solution: Try S...
“surface active agents” that are key to detergents' effectiveness. They are added to some laundry detergents, disinfectants, laundry stain removers, and citrus cleaner/degreasers. When discharged in municipal wastewater, they break down into nonylphenol and octylphenol, which are more toxic and do...
you can buy very toxic laundry detergents as well, and they deposit their lovely, fake, synthetic fragrances all over the stuff, and it sticks to it for a very long time. actually, i heard a rumor that textile recycling facilities in europe cannot accept old, american-used clothing because...
Recently, there have been many media exposing the "black curtain" of the laundry industry, which involves fraud, price is reasonable, and also mentioned that "dry cleaning agent is toxic chemical products, four vinyl chloride". So many people are cleaning by dry cleaning agents.clothes The ques...
9. Make Your Own Laundry Soap No matter your lifestyle, clothes eventually need to be washed. Yet, commercial laundry detergents are riddled with toxic chemicals you should stay away from, rather than breath in from your clothes all day. The good news? Detergent companies are harboring a big...
If you’re starting become wise to the serious long term damage that some everyday household goods are quietly placing on our bodies, you’ll want to readToxic Chemicals in Laundry Detergents –before you do that next load of laundry. ...
What is laundry brightener? Optical brighteners aresynthetic chemicals added to liquid and powder laundry detergentsto make clothing appear whiter and brighter, and thus cleaner. They are the modern-day replacement for the decades-old practice of bluing—adding small amounts of blue dye to fabric ...